SHAKESPEARE & SOCIAL DIALOGUE (Adobe Reader) ebook download Lynne Magnusson

Shakespeare and Social Dialogue

Shakespeare and Social Dialogue opens up a new approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language of individual Shakespearean characters, Magnusson analyzes dialogue, conversation, sonnets and particularly letters of the period, which are normally read as historical documents, as the verbal negotiation of specific social and power relations. Thus, the rhetoric of service or friendship is explored in texts as diverse as Sidney family letters, Shakespearean sonnets and Burghley's state letters. The book draws on ideas from discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics, especially 'politeness theory', relating these to key ideas in epistolary handbooks of the period, including those by Erasmus and Angel Day and demonstrates that Shakespeare's language is rooted in the everyday language of Elizabethan culture. Magnusson creates a way of reading both literary texts and historical documents which bridges the gap between the methods of new historicism and linguistic criticism.

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Title of ebook: Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
ISBN: 9780511036415
parent-ISBN: 9780521641913
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1624 kb
Published: 03-1995
Released online for download: 03-31-1995
Author of eBook: Magnusson, Lynne

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